I make work that is many things at once: poems that are…

neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts…

— Tadeusz Borowski

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of…

— Alex Lemon

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never…

— Jimmy Carter

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

“There is a thin line between poetry and word salad.”

— Richard Carl Evans

“The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the created world…

— Northrop Frye

“And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp’s waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn…

— Michel Leiris

“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued…

— Aberjhani

“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays…

— Michel Leiris

“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric…

— Alicia Ostriker

“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination…

— Alicia Ostriker

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to know," which…

— Milan Kundera

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

— Alicia Ostriker